Connecticut western news., 1887-11-30
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

The National Bank of Quebec has reduced its S2, 900 ,0C0 one-third.
 There arc 800 cases of typhoid and mala- rial fever at Ottawa, Ont.
 Henry Koch hanged himself in his cell st the county jail at Lancaster, Pa.
 "A gas-pipe bomb was found on the door, step of the United States Marshal at Chicago. The project is revived to lay a cable across the Pacific via the Sandwich Islands and Aus tralia.
 Two Pinkerton detectives are constantly guarding Fish Commissioner Joseph Cham berlain.
 The report of the Pacific Railway Investi- gating Commission, occupying 4,OO0 pages, will be ready by Dec. 1.
 E. E. Wartrous, a New York commercial traveller was sandbagge1 and robbed of his watch and $500 at Omaha. .-.. Archbishop Fabre, of Montreal, asks all Roman Catholics to pray for the restoration of the Pope's temporal power.
 The total cost of defending the Chicago Anarchists was S400O0, and the expense to Cook county for prosecution Sl0O,O0O.
 Montreal has taken action against 1l0 in surance and other companies in that province that have failed to pay the commercial tax. -Ex-Detectiye Hersome convicted of rob- ping New York jewelry agent of S1, 400 worth of diamonds at Boston, was sentenced
 
 Martin Van Sass and Robert Wald were arrested at Boston for the larceny of S150,0OO of stock of Georgia improvement company from Col A. J. Rogers.
 Tho Canadian schooner Norwood went ashore at Grand Island in binding snow storm and broke to pieces. The crew had 8 terrible struggle for their lives.
 The miners have appointed committee of ten to confer with President Corbin, of the Reading Company to effect a settlement of the troubles ill the Lehigh and Schuylkill re- gions.
 John E. Burton, millionaire of Ashland Wis, filed mortgage in favor of the Central Trust Company of New York for SSSO, GOO Five vessels were wrecked near Chicago in gale. The crew of one schooner were nearly frozen to death before they wore rescued.
 A meeting to be held in Chicago is to form a national organization of employing htho- graphers similar in its purposes to Typothetse. James G. Douglass, capitalist of Indian apolis, and at one time part owner of the Journal, dropped dead at the English Opera. The Anarchist Defence Committee of Chi cago have definitely arranged to have their dead buried in one plot of ground, 3, eco square feet, in Waldheim Cemetery.
 An evicted woman and her babe were found in the streets of Mascoutah, Ill. The woman had not tasted food for a week and the child WAS dead from starvation.
 A corner in poultry was broken in Cincin- nati, and turkeys sold at cents & pound, choice chickens at 20 cents apiece, and the finest geese at S3 a dozen.
 The establishment of the Des Moines Packing Company was burned. Loss S130, 900. John Rice, a well-known minstrel, died at the county hospital in Chicago of oonsump- ton.
 The American colonies in Berlin and Lon- don celebrated Thanksgiving Day in an appro- priate manner.
 Francois Radoux, lieutenant in the army of the First Napoleon, died at Portland, Me, aged 97.
 The proprietors of the St. Louis Globe Democrat are planning to publish reproduce ton of their paper at Evansville, Ind.
 An extensive and disastrous fire is report ed in the Calumet and Hecla copper mines of Michigan.
 Forest fires continue to rage on the banks of the Lower Mississippi. Many gin houses in Crittenden County. Arkansas, and in the counties of Mississippi which border the river, have been burned. Steamers cannot run at night owing to the dense smoke which above NJ emphis, 65O miles. Fires are burning everywhe re within the territory, and there IS no immediate prospects of rain.
 There is another murder to add to the list of misdesds that have resulted in blood shed along the line of the new aqueduct New 1Ork clty IS Du1lulnS. A nachuiau WAS sLot it is supposed by some Magyars he had driven to their lodgings.
 The Supreme Court of Washington Terri tory has enjoined the Northern Pacific railroad from cutting timber illegally.
 Successful experiments in using new air-brake on freight trains were conducted on the West Shore road. On down grade (53 feet to a mile) heavy train, runrlng -4l miles an hour. was stopped in about 600 feet.
 A workman on the new roughkeepsit bridge over the Hudson River met with death by falling 235 feet from traveller" to scow in the river.
 At the Watervliet arsenal the Government has commenced making small calibre stec guns
 The official figures of the new census O. Buffa'o, N. T., taken by tn, polics, show the total population to be 230, ,2S4; an increase O. p, ,466 over the census of 1885.
 About fifty warrants, alleging violations of the factory laws in respect of the employ ment of the children under 13 years of age have been issued at Cohoes, N. 1., on com plain: of the State Factory Inspectors.
 -yiscount Kabayama, Admiral of the JaI anese Navy, accompanied by staff of fiv Japanese officers, are in Newport They wis ited the training ship and war college, an' will visit the torpedo station.
 In Fort George inlet, Florida, a bottl was picked up containing note: "The goo ship Mary Whalen sunk off Barney Get Light
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